DRC Delegation Visits Egypt's CCCPA

A delegation from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), headed by Professor Alphonse Ntumba", coordinator of the forthcoming Congolese presidency of the African Union (AU), visited on Thursday the headquarters of the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding (CCCPA).

This comes within the framework of the delegation’s visit to Cairo, in preparation for his country's presidency of the African Union during the next year.

Ahmed Abdel Latif, Director General of the Cairo International Center, reviewed the center's role in building and strengthening African capabilities in the areas of peace and security by organizing training courses, holding international conferences and workshops, and preparing research.

The center also dealt with Egypt's pioneering role in peace-keeping, peace-building, reconstruction, and post-conflict development, and its eagerness to advance the visions of its African sisters on these issues in various international forums.

The work team of the center presented various activities in many fields, chief among them the preservation and building of peace, women, peace and security, prevention of extremism, combating human trafficking and migrant smuggling, as the work cell coordinator expressed his interest in exploring the possibility of the center organizing training courses and workshops in these various fields in support of the upcoming Congolese presidency to the African Union.

On the other hand, the meeting touched on the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development, which Egypt launched during its presidency of the African Union, as a high-level African platform that proposes African solutions to the challenges facing the continent.

Opportunities for cooperation were explored during the second edition of the forum scheduled to be held in the first quarter of next year.

DRC is a country in Central Africa. It is, by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa (after Algeria), and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 90 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country in the world.